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Kanye West & Spike Jonze's "Nightmares" Video Sounds Insane
Fake Shore Drive - The Chicago Hip Hop Blog —
... Kanye premiered his video for "Nightmares" last night at the Los Angeles Film festival. The Spike Jonze-directed clip, which is now a short film entitled We Were Once A Fairytale, features Kanye having sex with a pillow, vomiting rose petals and pulling a furry demon rodent out of his stomach. I have to see this! The Daily Swarm writes: Kanye West was rolling deep at the Los Angeles Film Festival tonight, surprising the audience with the premier of a short film by Spike Jonze called We Were Once A Fairytale. ...
Kanye West x Spike Jonze Debut “Nightmares” Short Film
Nah Right —
... bowie knife to fit the critter’s scale who then uses it to commit hari kari.
They go on to say that the video takes what people like and hate about Ye’s persona and pushes it to the limit, the video also “walks the fine line between self aggrandizement and self mockery.” The piece also mentions that the song has beens remixed (sort of like Paranoid was) and that it was done by Spike Jonze’ brother, Squeak E. Clean of N.A.S.A.
Link: Kanye West, Spike Jonze debut bizarre short “Nightmares” film at LAFF ...
Kanye Pukes Roses For Spike Jonze
URB Magazine Daily Blogs —
... Kanye Pukes Roses For Spike Jonze If you happen to have attended last night's Los Angeles Film Festival to catch teh surprise premier of Spike Jonze short film with Kanye West, We Were Once A Fairy Tale , then lucky you. If you're like the rest of us, then keep on reading the blogger descritptions even though you know they're not nearly as compelling as the clip itself. Of do yourself a favor and just click to something else right now before we ruin it for you. From The Daily Swarm : In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent and boastful, telling ...
Spike Jonze And Kanye West Premiere Short Film, 'We Were Once A Fairytale,' At LAFF
:: The Playlist :: —
Spike Jonze and Kanye West surprised audiences at the Los Angeles Film Festival last night with the premiere of their previously announced short film, revealed to be titled "We Were Once A Fairytale," according to the Daily Swarm. Written and directed by Jonze, the short reportedly "walks the fine line between self aggrandizement and self mockery that runs through all of Kanye’s endeavors" and "takes what people love and hate about ...
Spike Jonze and Kanye West premiere pretentious short film at Festival
World of Wonder Productions —
... The short film, We Were Once a Fairy Tale, was originally planned as a video, but Jonze decided at the last minute to show it at the Los Angeles Film Festival instead. It premiered to a surprised audience, who had no idea what they were there for. According to the Daily Swine, "The film walks the fine line between self-aggrandisement and self-mockery that runs through all of Kanye's work. In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent and boastful, telling starstruck club-goers that the song playing in the club is his. He wanders into a side ...
BFFs Spike Jonze And Kanye West To Debut 'We Were Once A Fairytale' Short via ITunes On September 8
:: The Playlist :: —
... From most accounts -- and here's one, because the L.A. Shorts Film Festival got an early peek at the film -- it's not just an extended music video and it better not be cause nothing gets on our nerves more than a project dubbed a "short film," that's essentially just a longer form version of marketing your commercial, errr, sorry music video. ...
Spike Jonze-Directed Kanye West Short Film Gets Release Date
Pitchfork: Latest News —
... The piece, dubbed We Were Once a Fairytale, screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival back in June and involves a disoriented Kanye having sex with a pillow before ripping a demon out of his own stomach, according to a Daily Swarm report. Sounds even more fucked up than the pair's previous collaboration, for the S&M-meets-murder ...
Kanye West Reteams with Spike Jonze
Rap-Up.com —
Kanye West and Spike Jonze Kanye West has worked with many creative minds, including Marc Jacobs and Takashi Murakami. His latest collaboration finds him teaming up again with Spike Jonze. The rapper and acclaimed filmmaker, who directed ’Ye’s “Flashing Lights” video, will reunite for We Were Once a Fairytale . The short film was shot over a two-day period in January in Los Angeles. The Daily Swarm attended a screening of the bizarre film at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June and has provided a synopsis.“In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent ...
Kanye West, Spike Jonze’s “Fairytale” Short Out in September
Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily —
... According to the Daily Swarm, who saw the video at the LAFF, We Were Once a Fairytale stars Kanye as Kanye, with the rapper getting drunk at a club and telling the ladies that the song playing on the speakers is his. He brings one of the women home and engages in sexual relations only to realize he’s getting it on with a pillow. Then, like in American Beauty, West starts vomiting rose petals. And that’s just the first act! From there, Kanye finds a knife, digs a rodent out his hand, then the rodent kills itself with a smaller knife. ...
Video: Kanye West & Spike Jonze’s “We Were Once A Fairytale”
The Smoking Section —
... I saw this earlier today and wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. Now, courtesy of The Daily Swarm, it now all has meaning…somewhat. ...
Where The Wild Things Really Are: Watch Spike Jonze & Kanye's Film Short 'We Were Once A Fairytale'...
The Daily Swarm —
“We Were Once A Fairytale” – Kanye West Dir: Spike Jonze from Yooj‽ – Recording Live From No on Vimeo.
The Daily Swarm 6/25/09:
June 25, 2009
Kanye West, Spike Jonze debut bizarre short “Nightmares” ...
